Combustion engine



J l/VV TOR r J Dec. 11, 1928. I 1,695,186

J. GOOD COMBUSTION ENGINE 'Origiml Filed Feb. 28, 1 1 2 Sheets-Sheet 1 ATTORNEY Dec. 11, 1928. 1,695,186

J. GOOD COMBUSTION ENGINE Original Filed Feb. 28, 1918' 2 s t s t 2 :1 1 I I i Patented Dec. 11, 1928.

- UNITED- ST T "PA'rEifiiljoF :omteoon, 'or'AanEN CITY, NEW roan; ASSIGNOB r eoonI vENrroNs 00., or a -V 1 NEW YORK, Y., a CORPORATION or ew YORK.

COJlIBUS'lION ENGINE.

Application filed February 28,1918, Serial No. 219,5?9. gnawed October, 2,1926.

The invention concerns the manner Ofad: mission, vaporization, and combustion of a mixture of liquid fuel and an m internal "combustion enginesmore particularly multi-' 1 cylinder engines burning the less volatile grades of fuel and as illustrated consists in an organizationof the combustion space and intake and exhaust passages of the 611 1116 ae-. cordin .to certain rinciples hereinafter explaine "whereby the combustion proceedswith lhigh thermal efficiency, even with these lower grades of-fuel and with a minimum of,

contamination of the lubricating oil by the I juel liquid,'as well as with various other ad- 5 those-skilled in this .art.

' F? the drawings:

I Fig.;1 isa top plan of a six-cylinder engine halving the invention applied; -'Fi 2 a side elevation thereof with the distributing means in section Fig. 3 a transverse vertical section in larger scale on the plane of the exhaust and intake valves of one .of the cylinders showing also .25 the intake, and fuel distributer mechanism;

and

Fig. 4 is a modification.

Each of the engine cylinders, being water: jacketed or otherwise equivalently cooled, is

3 designed so that the piston is veryclose to theeylinder head at its inner or upper dead center, leaving only a narrow space 1 by which the cylinder space exceeds the stroke volume.

vantages which will be made apparent to This space is in open communication through a relatively narrow, transverse, externally cooled passage 2 with the-valvechamber 3 and opens downwardly into the latter. The floor or bottom of the valve chamber thus depressed is also water-jacketedbut is prin- ...cipally constituted by the exhaust valve 4 which may be of various types as presently explained. The inlet valve 5 opens into the upper part of the valve chamber preferably directly above the exhaust valve and 1s so related thereto that the inflowing mixture of air and fuel is directed toward the face of said valve or atleast downwardly toward the i lower part of the said chamber 3. The d1- -recting means shown in Fig. 3 comprises an annular boss 6 or a frusto conical flange 6 associated-with or surrounding the valve seat and which forms a sort of a nozzle for the v deliver of the mixture into the chamber. The

wall of the said flange is divergent in form and also tapered in section so'that the heat suring equal distribution of the fuel liquid absorbed by its-lowest or innermost edge will find a metallic path of ample and increasing cross-sectioufor escape to and dissipation in the water jacket or thefiiternaljcooling means. 1 a which may be employed. Thus, the directingjg j and that thereis no necessary limitation as- '05: I

to the kind of wall surface w "ch will perform the directing functio Both valves will beiunderstood to be mechanically ope ated if desired, the inlet being opened during a part or all of the suction'stroke-and the '10 @exhaust opened during the exhaust stroke- Q more or less and with "any suitable degree of overlap, the. engine shown being assumed" to be a four stroke engine.' In the m1u=g----5 cylinder engine, eachintake valve is connected 15 to a charge making device or a proportioning'f f device or it-might beicalled a carburetor, by

a separate'intake 7 which several intakes are 1 so organized that only one is in communica tron with said charge form ng device at a;

portions of fuel and air'shall flo'w in exactly the predetermined amount to each particu-' lar cylinder whether'the liquid fuel be in'the state of vapor or of suspended fuel particles or in the form of a liquid stream thus avoiding any inequality in the performance of the. individual cylinders ofa'lnulti-eylinder 'engine. There are various ways forthus in-- with the air into individual intake parts and I may use either that shown in my coending application Serial No. 222,828 fil on or; about March 16, 1918 or that in my prior ap plication Serial No. 856,906 filed on or about August 15, 1914. The means of thelatter application is used in thepresent drawing i and comprises a rotary distributing yalve 8 driven in proper phase with the en ine by a a lay-shaft 9 and adapted to connect't e sev- 10o eral intakessuccessively with the entrance or mixing chamber ofthe fuel and air. Be cause the engine shown comprises six cylin- 'ders in which the suction periods of different 'utiug'valve in each case is a hollow conical or taper curved valve mounted in a casing no s w I time, the object being tofassure that-theprb level fuel receptacle, 1 3 also common in carburetors. A singler eceptacle serves both fuel nozzles which'should be identical in size and a single needle valve "14 regulates 'the"de-' livery from cachnozzle. -Thetwo distributing valves will be understood to be sotimed as" to open communication between the mixing chamber 10 and theirrespective intakes 7 in" properly timed sequence to-T'accommodate the suction strokes of .th' veral cylinders as determined by the cra nlfgshaftarrangement hold such liquid as'may be. directed upon it from the intake valve butthe standard type of exhaust valve as shown at 4 in Fig. 4 per forms the same vaporizing function. On the compression stroke of the piston, next following-a suction stroke, the mixture of air and vapor which has been drawn directly into the cylinder from the nozzle 6 is partly returned to the chamber 3 and flows into' and mixes intimately with the fuel vapor evolved by the exhaust valve, with the result that an explosive mixture is thereby produced of high volumetric efficiency because introduced into the combustion space in a relatively cool state and without tendency to pre ignition in the and thereby cause ,fuel and airitq be drawn 7 combustion space. The exhaust valve which v into the cylindersin the constafit proportion represented by the relative SGtlZlIIgSfQf the springs ofthe valves 11' and' ofthe needlevalve Hand under the control of the throttle vl5 ofnwhich there are two both of them'joined by a link 16 forequal operation. ThejequaL' ity of distributionrtoseach cylinder is inde-Z pendent of the character of atomization or the .extent of. preliminary. vaporization," or the thoroughness 3 of the mixture produced; The entire charge passes the inletvalye and such portion of the liquid as'isfva orlzedor represented byvery fine suspnde particles of liquid'is drawn more or less-directlyf from the lip of the nozzle-orrflangejtt, laterally sage 2 and into thecylinder; The heavier. particles *and solid I liquid by reasonof their greater mass and momentumcontinue inathe =.directien"giyen to them'by the nozzle or-flange andstrike upon or near the exhaust valve, ewhfch hot from contact with thecombustionproduets of the last chargeandserves to vaporize'such liquid at the same time -itself;losing heat which is desirable; the relatively large-size of the chamber 3 provides for such a reduction 1n the velocity of the incoming charge (permits 4 liquid there may be to leave the air. and vapor stream at this point and deposit on the exhaust valve and the walls of the chambe ,The deposited liquid is not swept along the walls into the cylinder by the gaseouspart of. the charge, because the floorofthe chamber is depressed as before inted out, and -v any liquid. that may be is t unburned on these drains or is blown out through the exhaust port 1m.-'- mediately, i. e., none of it is retained in pockets andthe like, and the exhaust port is at t the lowest point of the chamber It will be other causes. is kept from reachingthe crank 7 up heat as above explained during the whole. of the suctionstroke and the exposed face of.

is normally-the hottest surface in the combu's- .tion space, "is constantlycooled by contact with the incoming charge ,to' which it gives other surface whiehis ata low-temperature, besides which, the in-' coming charge mixture may never be in explosive proportions where it'is in contact water injection as a means for preventing preignition is thus avoided even with kerosene or've heavy fuels. Moreover the functionmg 0 the combustion space due to its con-' figuration is such as to reduce to a negligible with the'- p1 stpn. The necessity for using ins less it'be'in he form of very fine particles not likel'y to v to flow past the piston, Added t which the floor or bottom of the valve cham r 3 is con-- siderably. lower than the transverse passage 2 which connects to the cylinder so that even though the valve chamber were more or less flooded with solid liquid fuel little or none of it would pass into the cylinders while in liquid state, as before stated. A spark plug is shown as disposed in the connecting passage 2 but it will be understood by those skilled in this art'that a spark plug or other eiiicient means may be mounted 'in the combustion space-in any position thought by the designer".

-the engine design. "It-will be under et the cylinder walls much less to be most 'eflieient and depending somewhat stood from the foregoing description that,. the invention is susceptibl-{ofvarious forms of embodiment and that it broadlyapplies to shown in con unction with 'a six cylinder en mixing chambers-M" above described.

single cylinder'engines although specifically I claim:

- 1. T he coinbination of an engine cylinder,

a chamber connected thereto, the outlet from the chamber leading tothe engine cylinder being above the bottom of the chamber, means for delivering a charge mixture of liquid fuel and air to said chamber, an inlet valve controlling the delivery of the mixture to the chamber and an exhaust valve in the bottom of the chamber, the said inlet valve and the body of the exhaust valve being so related that the said mixture is directed toward the face of the body of the exhaust valve and liquid fuel is deposited thereon.

e 2. The combination with an internal coni- ,bustion engine cylinder having an intake and means delivering a-mlxture of llqllldlllel and air therethroi'igh, of a combustion space havingintake and exhaust valves and a directing 1 flange associated with said intake valve adapted to directthe liquid particles of the opening into said passage, an exhaust valve mixture against the exhaust valve to be vaporized thereby, said directing flange being so arranged with the engine walls as to be cooled thereby to prevent ignition of the charge by the flange;

3. The coinbinationfivith an engine cylinder, of a combustion space formed by the I cylinder, a passage leading transversely therefrom and an enlarged valve chamber in the'lower part of said chamber and below.

the level ofthe transverse passage, an intake means, including an inlet valve opening into the upper part of the chamber, and means delivering a mixture of liquid fuel and air therethrou'gh to the'chamber, said intake 'means directing the liquid fuel onto the body of the exhaustvalve, I 4. In an engine having'a ch arge'propor 4o tioning device meansfor'cooling the engine cylinder, and mtake and exhaust valves, the combination of aI-taperedfflange' associated with the intake valve, and adapted to direct the incomingfuel mixture fromjsaid device'n45 toward the said exhaust-"valve, the wall of the thicker end of the wall, being related to vent ignition of the charge by the flange. i

5. In an engine of the kind-described, an

exhaust valve having its body'formed as an imperforate cup arranged to receive the'none.

vaporized liquid fuel admitted to the engine 55 said flange being also tapered in section and "said cooling means so that theheat absorbedbv the flange will be rapidly'dissipated to pre 50,

and retainthe same until the liquid is vaporv ized, whereb the'cup'receivmg the liquid 7. v

fuel is coole along with theicooling' of the exhaust valve. a 1

(SJ In an. internal combustion "enginfld I means providing aanixture of liquid fuel an air, an exhaust valve having an imperfo'rate Y lip on the upper surface of its body constituting a cup, an intakemeans directing said mixture of liquid-fuel and air togvard said cup whereby the fuel in liquid ,fidi'lnjis de ositedt therein, and means for cooling sai valve] body and therebypreventing ignition of the 3 mixture by the fuel receivin icup, 7 In testimony whereof, I avegi n dthi to specification. V

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